moving /var and /home to a new partition

Raul A. Gallegos raul at asmodean.net
Wed Mar 30 15:11:44 EST 2005


Hi.  I have FC3 installed and currently use the following on one hdd:

/hda1 swap
/hda2 /
/hda3 /usr/local
/hda4 /home

I did this because at time of install I only had one drive.  Now I will be 
installing a second drive for /home only.  So what I want to do is move 
/home to /hdc1 and then move /var to home's current partition /hda4.

I boot into single user mode first and edit fstab.

I know how to edit /etc/fstab but my question is what parameters I should 
give mv when moving the directories.

I figured I could temporarily mount /hdc1 as /newhome then:

cd /home
mv * /newhome

Now I can umount /newhome

Now for /var I could do:

cd /var
mv * /home

So when I reboot all the /var files will be in /home's old partition /hda4 
and the new /home will be on /hdc1.

What I'm worried about is preserving all permissions, ownerships, etc.

Does this all look right?





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